8 Ideas for Practising Mindfulness
If you have been around here for a while, you will have heard about the importance of mindfulness and living in alignment with the present moment. Yes this might sound simple – just live in the moment and it is in many ways. However, simple does not mean easy! Sometimes the simple things are the hardest…
What Would Your Note to Self Say?
This week is Valentine’s Day. As a single woman, Valentine’s Day used to challenge me as many of my friends and family were celebrating with their loved ones, so I decided to create something different. I decided that until my situation changed, Valentine’s Day is about self-care, self-love and self-healing. Subsequently, I decided to create…
Life and Work – Starting to Understand the Implications
When the phrase life and work balance is mentioned, people readily think it means that one should spend equal number of hours between life and work. However, it is not as simple as that. Life and work do not need to be allocated with the same number of hours. You can still find harmony despite…
What is Emotional Literacy?
More and more people are recognising the importance of emotional intelligence. As I have been working with emotional intelligence and supporting people to develop their emotional intelligence, one thing I have noticed is the importance of emotional literacy. Why Develop Emotional Literacy? Emotional literacy is the building block of emotional intelligence. Subsequently, when we develop our…
Understanding What Feelings and Emotions Are
One of the areas I am learning to master are my feelings. A few years ago, I realised that I preferred to live in my head (it was a coping and defence mechanism for me). Once I realised that, I decided to investigate and start to understand what feelings and emotions were so I could…
Are You Using Fear-Setting to Help You Reconnect to Your Courage?
Wow life works in mysterious ways! Yesterday I watched a TED Talk by Amanda Palmer on the Art of Asking as I was researching for a client. I shut down my computer (i.e. by closing the screen) and then went to Carols by the Beach with my sister and husband. Then this morning when I got…
3 Ways to Apply Kaizen in to Your Personal Life Now
The past few weeks I have been reflecting on the past year, discovering where I am in each area of my life, deciding where my focus is going to go in the New Year. There are a few areas of my life where I am really content, however there are a number of others that…
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